The baroness
Subtitle: the search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild
By: Hannah Rothschild
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780307961983
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Women music patrons; Music patrons; Biography
Description: A biography of the author's great-aunt, jazz patroness Nica de Koenigswarter, drawing on family records to examine the traditions that shaped her youth, her marriage to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, and her role in supporting the New York jazz world.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264), filmography (pages 265-267) , and index.
Table of contents: title: The other one; title: Queen of the fleas; title: The rose of Hungary; title: Fight, flee, flounder; title: Long, dark prison; title: Rothschildiana; title: The butterfly and the blues; title: Pure pre-war perfection; title: The Commander-in-Chief; title: You're the top; title: Stormy weather; title: Pistol-packing mama; title: Take the A-train; title: Black, brown and beige; title: A blast; title: Loneliest monk; title: Black bitch, white bitch; title: Bird; title: Pannonica; title: Strange fruit; title: Blood, sweat and tears; title: Gotten me crazy; title: Luvya; title: 'Round midnight.